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Mare Better Than Honour Sets $14 Million Record At Fasig-Tipton Sale
Mare Better Than Honour, dam of back-to-back Belmont Stakes winners Jazil and champion Rags to Riches, set a world Thoroughbred auction record for a broodmare or broodmare prospect November 2 when her price soared to $14 million during the Fasig-Tipton November select mixed sale in Lexington, Kentucky.
Southern Equine’s Michael Moreno, who owned 70% of the 2007 broodmare of the year, bid $14 million to keep her–a price that eclipsed the previous broodmare record by $3.5 million. John Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms had owned the other 30%.
“Best mare in the world,” he said. “Who knows. You don’t plan this kind of thing. It evolves.”
John Sikura bid on Better Than Honour too, calling her worthy of the record, but he stopped when the price passed $10 million. He credited Michael Moreno for his bidding strategy of running the price high quickly to discourage competitors.
“It’s a like a fighter throwing left hooks in the first round,” John Sikura said.
The sale price topped the previous high for a mare of $10.5 million paid by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, for Playful Act at last November’s Keeneland sale.
Better Than Honour produced not only the two Belmont Stakes winners but Grade II champion Casino Drive, which enjoyed most of his horse racing success in Japan. Better Than Honour was pregnant last year with a Giant’s Causeway foal that was aborted.
Michael Moreno said he expects to go to top stallion A.P. Indy.
Better Than Honour, by former horse of the year Deputy Minister and out of Blush With Pride, was the top star among several horses owned in a former partnership between Southern Equine and Jon Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm. The mare Better Than Honour was sold because Southern Equine and Sikura were dispersing their joint holdings. The former is more interested in horse racing, and the latter is more interested in commercial breeding.
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